The purchase of millions of dollars in Government property by various programs within the Department of the Navy in the development of many ACAT-1 Major Systems acquisition programs need to be reviewed to determine if the proper regulatory guidance exists. The purpose of this research was to investigate what, if any policies, provide Program Managers of Major System Acquisition with the proper guidance in the management control and of Government acquired property. The thesis examines an...
Topic: Property Management
The Department of Defense struggles to develop and maintain cutting-edge software through the Defense Acquisition System. The pace of improvements in machine learning algorithms and software suggests the organization will fail to rapidly develop systems incorporating the latest innovations to meet its intelligence-related media analysis needs. In contrast, the trend of industry and academia releasing algorithms and software under permissive licenses bestows defense organizations with an...
Topics: deep learning, machine learning, object detection, computer forensics, open source, TensorFlow
Communication systems requirements analysis is an essential ingredient for developing new communication systems. Unfortunately, system development groups consisting of system users, analysts, and managers have not been very effective in performing the requirements analysis. Users have been unable to communicate what they want, the technical ideas suggested by the analysts reflect their particular interests, and the managers have been unable to facilitate the interactions between the users and...
Topics: Management, cognitive style, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, group performance measures, system...
Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1976
Topic: Management
Source: half
Forensics examiners frequently search for known content by comparing each file from a target media to a known file hash database. We propose using sector hashing to rapidly identify content of interest. Using this method, we hash 512 B or 4 KiB disk sectors of the target media and compare those to a hash database of known file blocks, fixed-sized file fragments of the same size. Sector-level analysis is fast because it can be parallelized and we can sample a sufficient number of sectors to...
Topic: Digital Forensics, Sector Hashing, Full Media Analysis, Random Sampling, Forensic Triage, Distinct...
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Topic: Civil engineering
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The Military Satellite Communications Decision Support System (MDSS) project for U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) is intended to provide decision makers an integrated information tool to effectively manage military satellite communication (MILSATCOM) resources while satisfying communications requirements. An important aspect of MDSS is the information provided by the MILSATCOM Requirements Database (MRDB). The objective of this thesis is twofold. First, it develops a new conceptual schema for...
Topics: MILSATCOM, MRDB, Database design, Normalization, Database performance
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Topic: Management
Thesis (M.A. in Asian Studies)--San Diego State University, 1974
Topic: Political science
Bibliography: l. 180
Source: half
This thesis studied the results attained by the six Navy Recruiting Areas in the recruitment of prior-service Navy veterans (NAVETS) for the years FY 1975- FY 1978. Data analyzed included age, marital status, level of education, entry paygrade, race and broad occupational category. Comparisons of total numbers of NAVETS recruited with total numbers of other service veterans (OSVETS) recruited were also made. Policy implications and recommendations for the recruitment of prior service Navy...
Topics: Management, Navy veterans, prior service, NAVETS, recruiting, reenlistments
Bibliography: l. 269
Topic: Computer science
Hurricane Katrina highlighted serious deficiencies in America's national approach to emergency management of Incidents of National Significance (IoNS). Although Homeland Security Presidential Directive Five identifies a broad, unified effort to respond to domestic incidents, barriers to the achievement of this goal exist in our culture, policies and processes. When viewing our national response from the perspective of network theory and knowledge management, specific gaps are identified in...
Topics: Emergency management, Crisis management, Hurricanes, United States
Piracy threatens commercial shipping passing through major choke points and sea lines of communication in regions such as the Gulf of Aden (GOA) and Southeast Asia. Piracy has become a larger security issue in the international community as the number of attacks has increased and ransoms have escalated. Countries such as China have become more involved in counter-piracy operations; however, China has neither joined the Combined Maritime Forces task force in the GOA to combat piracy nor been...
Topics: China, maritime security, piracy, counter-piracy, Combined Maritime Forces, geopolitical,...
Thesis advisors, Dan C. Boger and Gregory G. Hildebrandt
Topics: LOGISTICS SUPPORT, MILITARY FORCE LEVELS, GOAL PROGRAMMING
This thesis develops a theory that explains why special operations succeed. The theory is important because successful special operations defy conventional wisdom. Special operations forces are usually numerically inferior to the enemy and generally these forces are attacking fortified positions. According to Carl Von Clausewitz, both of these factors should spell defeat, and yet, time and again -- these missions succeed. This thesis presents eight historical cases and demonstrates how certain...
Topic: Special Operations
As demand for hard real-time and embedded computer systems increases, a new approach to software development is critical. Software engineers and users would benefit from an automated methodology allowing validation of design specifications or functional requirements early in the development life cycle. A fast, efficient, easy-to-use tool would increase productivity and would enhance user confidence that software would be delivered at less cost and on schedule. The Computer Aided Prototyping...
Topics: Management, rapid prototyping, static scheduler, CAPS, PSDL, Ada
The goals of this thesis are to demonstrate the operation of a near-field scanning microscope (NSOM) inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to collect spatially resolved luminescence and to image transport on nano-scale structures, particularly nanowires. The SEM is used to generate localized charge and the NSOM is used to observe the motion of the excess charge due to diffusion and/or drift via its recombination emission. This will allow direct determination of transport parameters, such...
Topics: Nanowires, Nanostructured materials, Atomic force microscopy, Near-field microscopy, Imaging...
The open ocean and coastal environments provide an abundant amount of unharvested energy. It would be powerful if the U.S. Navy could harness more of the ocean’s tidal movements, wave oscillations, and vibrations to power its ports and vehicles. A linear sliding contact-mode triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) consisting of two interdigitative copper electrodes and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) adhesive tape was constructed on 3D printed material. To improve the TENG’s performance in low...
Topics: triboelectric nanogenerator, TENG, ocean energy harvesting, energy production and storage, U.S....
Recent attacks on airports exposed an emerging threat to the security of the traveling public, attacks on soft targets. Incidents throughout the world indicate that terrorists, seeking to maximize life loss, and economic and symbolic destruction, have changed their focus to soft targets. The thesis examines plausible deterrence measures through environmental design for crowd protection in the aviation transportation sector. The policies of the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the United States...
Topics: soft target security, crowd protection, human perception, environmental design, crime prevention...
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Topic: Oceanography
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Barriers to women’s service in the U.S. military have been greatly reduced over the past two decades. Policies preventing women from serving on ships, submarines, and in attack aircraft were removed in 1994. More recently, in January 2013, the Department of Defense overturned the 1994 Exclusion Policy on women serving in direct ground combat units. Implementing this change presents a significant challenge. The decision to do so has reignited a long-standing debate over women’s rights and...
Topics: combat ban on women lifted, integrating women into combat units, rescinding the 1994 Exclusion...
This thesis designs, develops and tests a computer-assisted system to construct final examination schedules at the Naval Postgraduate School. The system is based on a greedy heuristic that produces high quality solutions for 200 examinations in a few minutes on a personal computer. Comparisons between computer constructed schedules and the manual schedule for the 1994 winter quarter show the manual schedule's superiority. Despite this observation, the computer system's ability to rapidly...
Topic: Examination scheduling, examination conflict, student clique
Increasingly, Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems are becoming more software dependent. The future holds a ten-fold increase in the amount of on-board software in military systems. Software will provide more functionality and there will be more of it. The growth in the amount of fielded software has increased the requirements for software support services. It is estimated that more than 70% of the DoD expenditure for software is for what is commonly referred to as post deployment...
Topic: Management
This report develops a modern naval combat model. It deals with naval surface missile combat and models the attrition as a force-on-force process described in discrete time steps, or slaves. The degradation of each force is expressed in terms of remaining staying power and combat power in both opponents. It is based on Lt. Beall's model, but since it deals with missile warfare it incorporates several human factors that affect the outcome of a naval battle: specifically scouting effectiveness,...
Topics: Naval art and science, Mathematical models, Naval battles, Naval tactics, War, Maritime...
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Topic: Management
This thesis examines self-identified gang members and extremists incarcerated in Navy and Marine Corps brigs and disciplinary barracks. Information was gathered from interviews conducted with inmates. The interviews focused on several key issues, including reasons for enlisting in the Navy and Marine Corps; truthfulness with recruiters concerning certain illegal activities prior to enlistment, including juvenile arrests and convictions; the nature and severity of crimes for which members were...
Topics: Gangs, Extremism, Accessions, Recruiting, Prison inmates
Since 1998, the European Union (EU) has begun to develop a Common European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), which provides a stronger role in the security and defense areas in order to become a more important actor in these fields. Since that time, the member states of the European Union have been pursuing capabilities to conduct conflict prevention and crisis management operations, with no intention of overcoming NATO's role and capabilities in the field of collective defense, but with the...
Topics: European Union, European security and defense policy, Greece, NATO
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Topic: Aeronautics
Source: half
Bibliography: l. 83
Topic: Oceanography
Thesis (MBA)--George Washington University, 1972
Topic: Civil engineering
Source: half
Most satellites rely on a ground control station to command their payloads and through which they download data from their payloads. The Naval Postgraduate School?s satellite (NPSAT1) is no exception. The spacecraft?s payloads, which include the Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography (CERTO), Langmuir probe, Configurable Fault Tolerant Processor (CFTP), as well as the Visible Wavelength Imager (VISIM), all generate data that require collection on the ground through a radio frequency...
Topic: Radio frequency
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Topic: Computer science
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Topic: Management
This is a study of intranet planning methodologies with specific focus on two aspects of project planning, requirements analysis and infrastructure assessment. This thesis examines both qualitative and quantitative aspects of assessing and planning for intranets. Thoroughly completing these two areas is important in order to bring success to an intranet project. This thesis examines variables necessary in each area that require consideration during planning. Chapter II is a study of...
Topic: Computer Networks, Intranets
Thesis advisor(s): Richard B. Doyle, Steven R. Lamar
This thesis explores international and domestic factors that constitute continuities in U.S. foreign and security policy regarding trans-Atlantic relations. Since the founding of the Atlantic Alliance burden sharing has been one of the major sources of conflict between the United States and its European NATO allies. Despite the reluctance to spend more than minimal amounts on military capabilities in most European NATO countries the issue did not become a major concern in the U.S. Congress...
Topics: Alliances, Trans-Atlantic relations, Mansfield Amendment, U.S. troop reduction in Europe,...
Bibliography: l. 246
Topic: Computer science
Source: half
Due-Process, Convening Authority, Ortiz, Uniform Code of Military Justice, UCMJ
Topic: Due-Process, Convening Authority, Ortiz, Uniform Code of Military Justice, UCMJ
Passive bistatic radars (PBR) and passive multistatic radars (PMR) use opportunistic transmitters to detect and locate targets. In this thesis, a maritime scenario was modeled with merchant vessels serving as multiple non-cooperative opportunistic transmitters while a frigate warship equipped with Electronic Warfare (EW) and Direction Finding (DF) receivers takes on the role of the receiver in a PBR/PMR configuration. The targets are assumed to be the generic Formidable-class frigate. A MATLAB...
Topics: back-scattering, bistatic, error ellipse, forward-scattering, hitchhiker radar, multistatic,...
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Topic: INTERNATIONAL LAW
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This thesis explains the basic operations of a Federal credit union, describes the role of internal auditing, reviews the internal audit function of cooperatives, and explores the potential benefits of a \"single audit\" program for credit unions. An auditing model is developed with subprograms to review fiscal administration, property management, procurement, personnel, and the operational activities of a Federal credit union. The model contains preferred practices of the National...
Topics: Management, Federal credit unions, Audits, Single Audit Model, Internal Review, Supervisory...
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Thesis (M.S. in Comp. Sci.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1978
Topic: Computer science
This research explores the use of Twitter to determine if the personality characteristics of well-performing Navy personnel can be identified based on their Twitter use. Well-performing Navy personnel are identified by using the publicly-available Navy promotion lists and then those names were used to query Twitter in order to identify possible accounts belonging to these Sailors. Data from those Twitter accounts that could be positively identified as belonging to Navy personnel were then fed...
Topics: Twitter, personality, Five Factor Model, graph database, textual analysis, LIWC
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Hankins, Stanely Eugene; Bechard, Thomas Philip
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This thesis explores multi-year revenue and expenditure forecasting as a financial management tool available to small municipal governments. A generalized approach for developing a multi-year forecasting process is presented, together with a multi-year revenue and expenditure forecasting model for the City of Monterey, California. The Monterey model includes an econometric approach for projecting revenues, while the expenditure forecast is based on a deterministic approach. Suggestions for...
Topics: Management, Multi-Year Revenue and Expenditure Forecasting, Small Municipal Government, Econometric...
The Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) and the satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provide detailed information about the environment U.S. Naval forces choose to operate in. In recent years environmental conditions have been a driving factor in preventing the detection of underwater objects like mines. Suspended sediments are an environmental condition of interest. Remote sensors provide an opportunity to detect suspended sediments in a region prior to the...
Topics: Oceanography, Hurricanes, Submarine mines
Currently, two methods exist to determine trajectory of a ballistic penetrator: Poncelet Analysis and Differential Area Force Law (DAFL) methods. An exact solution for the Poncelet Equation exists; making for easy computation. However, the one dimensional nature of the equation fails to capture the intricate three-dimensional nature of real world ballistic penetrator trajectories. The DAFL methods employ empirically derived stress algorithms to calculate to forces acting on a differential area...
Topics: Mechanical engineering, Equations of motion, Projectiles, Polynomials, Ballistics, Algorithms, Law...
Starting with a least squares formulation of the parameter estimation problem, both fixed data and data-adaptive iterative algorithms are developed. We apply two new techniques, namely diagonal perturbation and multiple partitioning, to existing finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) fixed data matrix splitting algorithms, resulting in improved performance. Also, we extend the fixed data algorithms to the data-adaptive case, and contrast them with FIR and IIR...
Topics: Algorithms, Convergence., Finite Impulse Response, Infinite Impulse Response, Matrix Splitting,...
Bibliography: leaves 39-40
Source: half
The objective of this thesis is to test an interactive PC based software model that allows manpower planners to study the impact of policy decisions on future inventories. This force structure model called FORCE and based on a Markov chain theory, allows manpower planners to use current inventory data and various estimates of continuation rates, promotion rates as well as planned accessions to forecast futures inventories. This thesis attempts to demonstrate the flexibility of this force...
Topics: Computer programs, Manpower, Medical Service Corps, Markov, force structure, promotions, personnel...
The explosive growth of user-generated video presents opportunities and challenges. The videos may possess valuable information that was once unavailable. On the other hand, the information may be buried or difficult to access with traditional methods. Automatic keyframe video summarization technologies exist that attempt to address this problem. A keyframe summary can often be viewed quicker than the underlying video. However, a theoretical framework for objectively assessing keyframe summary...
Topics: Video Summarization, Video Abstraction, Keyframes, Keyframe Summary Evaluation, User-Generated...
Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1974
Topic: Management
In 1986, Deputy Secretary of Defense W. H. Taft IV, established an \"Acquisition Streamlining Initiative** (ASI) which addresses and attempts to \"streamline\" the acquisition process and mandated requirements. This research reviews efforts of one Hardware Systems Command—the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) —to implement AS I . In reviewing the five major programs streamlined thus far at -SPAUAR, it was found monetary savings have been achieved. The various...
Topics: Management, streamlining, acquisition, requirements, procurement tailoring, non developmental items...
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Topics: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS., NUMERICAL ANALYSIS., PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS., SONAR.
Thesis Advisor(s): Brock, J. E
This thesis examines the reliance on air power for fire support by light forces and whether other fire support assets could perform these missions better. By studying the historical evolution of fire support, air power and small wars doctrine, patterns emerge in how these developments interrelate. These patterns have led to a system that does not take advantage of some of the capabilities of other fire support assets, mainly artillery and mortars. The case of Operation Enduring Freedom, in...
Topics: Air power, Air warfare, Artillery
The VI is under-prepared for major natural disasters and terrorism. Many emergency plans are incomplete, based on inaccurate information, wrongly optimistic and assume an infrastructure that does not exist. The VI is at risk to a direct terrorist attack and also subject to whatever secondary consequences result from a stateside attack, because virtually one hundred percent of food, fuel, medicine, and oil used to make electricity and potable water - and tourists, the economy's lifeblood -- are...
Topics: Terrorism, United States, Prevention, Citizen participation, Civil defense, Virgin Islands of the...
The Russian annexation of Crimea stimulated the author's interest in researching the little green men (allegedly the Russian Spetsnaz) that appeared at a decisive point in the coup de main. The intent here is to understand the capabilities and limitations of the Russian special operations forces (SOF) and the level of threat they present to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and Russia's neighbors. This study uses Colin Gray's strategic utility theory to understand why Russian...
Topics: strategic utility, Spetsnaz, spetsialnogo naznacheniya, special forces, special operations, special...
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Topic: Mechanical engineering
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There has been a dramatic unconventional warfare (UW) renaissance in recent years. Much of the published material on the subject has been focused on what unconventional warfare is, re-defining it, and attempting to frame the concept of its use as it relates to the current military operational environment. Little work has been produced that examines the more basic question Why UW This research begins where the 2009 redefinition of UW left off. Identifying an expanded field of 51 cases of...
Topics: Unconventional Warfare, UW, Decision Points, Networks, Covert Action, Covert Operations, Irregular...
With the development of technology, Electronic Warfare has been increasing for decades its importance in modern battles. It can even be referred to as the heart of today's net-centric battlefield. Unmanned Aerial Systems are gaining more importance every single day. Nations are working on more complex and more effective UAS in order to accomplish missions that are very difficult, or even impossible for manned aircraft. Electronic Warfare missions are often dangerous and risky. Mounting...
Topics: Electronics in military engineering, Tactics
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